In this paper, we study a dynamic fleet management problem with uncertain demands and customer chosen service levels. We first show that the problem can be transformed into a dynamic network with partially dependent random arc capacities, and then develop a structural decomposition approach...

The drayage services between a container terminal and the origin (or destination) of a shipment account for a significant portion of the total transportation cost. They are the key sources of shipment delays, road congestions, and disruptions in the international logistics network. Such a...

We consider a two-stage production system faced by semiconductor manufacturing which produces a hierarchy of multiple grades of outputs. In the first stage, a single type of input (wafer) is used to produce multiple types of semi-finished parts with dependent yield rates, and in the second...

Multistage dynamic networks with random arc capacities (MDNRAC) have been successfully used for modeling various resource allocation problems in the transportation area. However, solving these problems is generally computationally intensive, and there is still a need to develop more efficient...

We investigate a contract setting problem faced by a manufacturer who can procure major modules from an overseas supplier, as well as a local supplier. The overseas supplier is prime and offers quality products, whereas the local supplier is viewed only as a backup, and its products are inferior...

Reviewer Assignment Problem (RAP) is an important issue in peer-review of academic writing. This issue directly influences the quality of the publication and as such is the brickwork of scientific authentication. Due to the obvious limitations of manual assignment, automatic approaches for RAP...

In the controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) treatment, clinicians monitor the patients’ physiological responses to gonadotropin administration to tradeoff between pregnancy probability and ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS). We formulate the dosage control problem in the COH...

We address the problem of forecasting spatial activities on a daily basis that are subject to the types of multiple, complex calendar effects that arise in many applications. Our problem is motivated by applications where we generally need to produce thousands, and frequently tens of thousands,...

A useful input to the pricing of truckload trucking services is the marginal benefit to the entire system of an additional load going from one region to the next. Two approaches are reviewed for estimating the marginal system benefit. The first is based on a well-known deterministic network...